Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-19

and skip to the next scallop. Work 6
rows in this way; then widen again by
putting in one all around. The next
row make . single ones, 8 in one, )
single ones, and go TO the next
scallop. Continue in this way
until the shirt shall be long
enough. Finish with shell edge or any
other you may desire. Run a ribbon at
the waist, or sew on ribbon loops to fasten
1t to the corset. Scotch yarn makes a
warm, durable skirt, and wears much more
smoothly than some other makes.
TRIALS OF GIRL OF FOURTEEN.
Thank goodness, Pm nearly Is. | be-
heve 1t l were to be II any longer it
would run me crazy. Pm very healthy.
like fun and boys. I'm fact, like boys
better that girls.) l am called "Tom-
boy at home, and think the name suits
me. One of my great trials is this: If
go to climbing on the chicken-coop. man.
ma says: You ought to be ashamed of
yourself; a great big l5-year-old girl,
thinking about beauS, to be clim5in9
about like boy" Then, again. if
l walk home from town With bow.
mamma says; "You little 13-year-oid
child, not quit playing with dolls, to go
flying around with a boy" I hate II, be-
cause it is about this age girl begins to
squeeze her feet into shoes two sizes too
small, and wear her gloves and bonnet in
doors and out; and if a freckle
get on her face she wonders how in
the world it did get there. Another
trial is this: If you are in company and
anything funny happens, your mother
pinches you and says, Don't open your
mouth so wide when You laugh,' instead
OF enjoying good hearty one. If there
| Is anything hate it is tight shoes. bonnets
and gloves: and squeezing your mouth up
to laugh.-Wdy BatSeN in Courier-Journal
MISTAKES OF FASHION.
One of the great mistakes of the pres
ent day is the paucity of underclothing
that women of fashion indulge in; it is
laying the seeds of many illnesses. Some
have dofied perticoats of any kind, and
are content with combinations and dresses
1t is neither seemly nor good for health
Running into extremes would seem
to be characteristic of woman
kind. Some years ago they were over
weighted with clothing, which, coming
mostly from the hips, was in every way
deleterious. Now they run so much into
the contrary extreme that, unless the follv
is nipped in the bud, diseases of the lungs.
| rheumatism and long train of evils will
run rampant. The disciples of wooden
clothing would Lave nothing else worn;
but some capital elastic vests have been
brought out in thread which are quite
worth thinking about CaSselTS Fa,nila
Magazine.
LADIES READING CLUBS.
The forming of reading clubs in social
| circles is becoming very popular the coun-
try through. A lady travelling recently
III some of the interior towns of Massachu-
sets found them in every community, and
not lnfrequently three or four in the same
village. The membership varies from ten
to twenty-five, the lesser number being the
more often observed The ladies form
their clubs, select Their books, and each one
subscribes for some good periodical, which
Is sent to her address. Of course, nc
two of the members subscribe for the
same periodical thus, each one may
read her own first, and pass it on in sys
tematic order. The club by this means i.
| able, at comparatively small outlay, tc
become familiar with the contents of al
| the best current publications. At the enc
of the season the club holds an auction, en-
abling the members to retain what i.
worth preserving, and the remainder O.
the periodicals and books are sold.-Maqa
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